Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
239399000 | Including whirler device to induce fluid rotation | 51 |
20080210782 | Fuel injector - An apparatus and method for minimizing and/or preventing thermal degradation of fuel in a fuel injector is disclosed. The body of the injector includes a fuel gallery with a contoured scarf formed therein. The scarf is configured to minimize and/or prevent fuel recirculation thus reducing the likelihood that fuel will dwell in an area long enough to sufficient to cause the degradation of the fuel. | 09-04-2008 |
20090072052 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING OZONATED WATER ON DEMAND - Systems and methods for producing ozonated water on demand. In particular, these systems comprise a water source, an ozone source, and a nozzle that mixes ozone and water to form a highly concentrated, ozonated water solution. Instead of requiring the ozonated water to be re-circulated to achieve a desired ozone concentration, the nozzle is configured to form the ozonated water solution in a single pass through the nozzle. Additionally, instead of requiring the ozonated water to be discharged into a pressurized tank to increase ozone absorption, the nozzle allows the ozonated water to be openly discharged. In some cases, the nozzle comprises a venturi with multiple ozone inlets to increase mixing. Additionally, in some cases the nozzle comprises a single pass mixing mechanism that mixes the water and ozone to form the high concentrate, ozonated water solution in a single pass through the nozzle. | 03-19-2009 |
20090159725 | MODULAR FUEL NOZZLE AIR SWIRLER - A modular fuel nozzle air swirler for a gas turbine engine has a body defining a fuel passage extending between an inlet end and a discharge end of the body. An annular cap is removably secured to the discharge end of the body via cooperating interlocking members. | 06-25-2009 |
20090272821 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MIXING REACTOR FEED - Methods and systems for a feed injector are provided. The feed injector system includes a plurality of annular channels that are substantially concentric about a longitudinal axis. The plurality of annular channels direct a flow of fluid substantially axially therethrough from a respective source to a reaction zone. The feed injector system also includes a swirl member extending into the fluid flow path defined in at least one of the plurality of annular channels wherein the swirl member is configured to impart a circumferential flow direction to fluid flowing through the at least one annular channel. | 11-05-2009 |
20100163647 | Two-Component Nozzle With Secondary Air Nozzles Arranged in Circular Form - The invention relates to a two-fluid nozzle with a main nozzle, having a mixing chamber and a nozzle orifice connected to said mixing chamber and positioned downstream thereof. | 07-01-2010 |
20100276517 | VORTEX-GENERATING NOZZLE-END RING - A vortex-generating nozzle-end ring includes a body having an outer periphery and an aperture disposed through the body, the aperture defining an inner periphery of the body, the body being adaptable to the end of a nozzle, and at least one tab extending from the inner periphery radially inwardly toward the center of the aperture. In another embodiment, a nozzle includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis having an inlet and an outlet; a vortex-generating nozzle-end ring disposed on the outlet, including a body having an outer periphery and an aperture disposed through the body, the aperture defining an inner periphery of the body, the body being adaptable to the end of nozzle; and at least one tab extending from the inner periphery radially inwardly toward the center of the aperture. | 11-04-2010 |
20110101131 | Swirler with gas injectors - A swirler for premixing a flow of fuel and a flow of air provided to a burner for a gas turbine engine is provided. The burner is provided with a swirler for mixing the air and the fuel and wherein the swirler is provided with swirler wings, wherein a channel formed between two adjacent swirler wings defines a passage. The swirler includes one fuel tube for gaseous fuel positioned in parallel on each side of a mixing rod in the passage, wherein the fuel tubes are provided with a plurality of diffuser holes distributed along the tube acting as gas injectors for efficiently distributing fuel in a flow of air passing through the swirler passage. | 05-05-2011 |
20110204162 | ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTROLLING FLUID JETS INJECTED INTO A FLUID STREAM - In an air mixing arrangement wherein a primary fluid is introduced through an opening in a wall to be mixed with a secondary fluid flowing along the wall surface, the opening is airfoil shaped with its leading edge being orientated at an attack angle with respect to the secondary fluid flow stream so as to thereby enhance the penetration and dispersion of the primary fluid stream into the secondary fluid stream. The airfoil shaped opening is selectively positioned such that its angle of attack provides the desired lift to optimize the mixing of the two streams for the particular application. In one embodiment, a collar is provided around the opening to prevent the secondary fluid from contacting the surface of the wall during certain conditions of operation. Multiple openings maybe used such as the combination of a larger airfoil shaped opening with a smaller airfoil shaped opened positioned downstream thereof, or a round shaped opening placed upstream of an airfoil shaped opening. Pairs of openings and associated collars maybe placed in symmetric relationship so as to promote mixing in particular applications, and nozzles maybe placed on the inner side of wall to enhance the flow characteristics of the primary fluid. | 08-25-2011 |
20120261495 | APPARATUS FOR REGULATING TWO-PHASE FLOW AND PORTABLE ATOMIZER BASED ON TWO-PHASE FLOW - A mixing chamber formed in a chassis outfitted with separate inlet channels for conveying pressurized liquid phase and gaseous phase and an outlet channel linking the mixing chamber with a spray nozzle via a flow tube. A separate cylindrical packing chamber is formed in the chassis, within which packing chamber a rotor with vanes is set, the vanes of which rotor intermittently close the inlet channels of the two phases formed in separate sectors of said packing chamber as demarcated by the rotor vanes, wherein the gaseous phase inlet channel is closed alternately with at least one liquid phase inlet channel conveying liquid phase into the mixing chamber via open inter-vane channels, wherein also the sector of the packing chamber containing the gaseous phase inlet channel is separated from the mixing chamber by a continuous section of a partition that closes off the rotor's inter-vane channels within this sector. | 10-18-2012 |
20130175364 | ATOMIZING NOZZLE WITH HIGH STABILITY - An atomizing nozzle includes a body, a rotor and a guiding structure. The body has an inlet, an outlet and a passage connecting the inlet to the outlet. The rotor assembled in the passage has first to third sections. The second section is disposed between the first and third sections, and has an outer diameter larger than those of the first and third sections. The guiding structure formed on a surface of the second section has a helical portion and an air passage portion, which is located within a pitch of the helical portion. An external edge of the helical portion abuts upon a wall of the passage. The rotor mounted within the passage cannot generate the significant lateral displacement and raked state, and water or liquid uniformly flows through the air passage portion located on a periphery of the rotor, and the atomizing state becomes stable and uniform. | 07-11-2013 |
20140252131 | SWIRL COMBUSTION AIR FUEL TORCH - A torch is provided having a tube having an inside diameter, a body and an orifice tip having a bore, where the diameter of the bore of the orifice tip and the inside diameter of the tube have a particular ratio based upon the type of fuel used for the operation. | 09-11-2014 |
20150354825 | FUEL SPRAY NOZZLE - Provided is a fuel spray nozzle provided with: a liquid fuel channel ( | 12-10-2015 |
20160178205 | PINTLE-SWIRL HYBRID INJECTION DEVICE | 06-23-2016 |
239400000 | Three or more fluids | 4 |
20090050713 | Triple helical flow vortex reactor improvements - Improvements to a triple helical flow vortex reactor add an inner wall ( | 02-26-2009 |
20120248220 | SPRAY APPLICATOR - A spray assembly for dispensing a mixture is provided. The spray assembly includes a connector configured for operable engagement with a first and a second source of component and a source of pressurized fluid, and a tip operably connected to the connector. The tip includes an opening and defines a mixing chamber between the connector and the opening of the tip, and an insert member configured to be received in the mixing chamber. The insert member includes a plurality of radially extending slots on at least one end of the insert. The plurality of radially extending slots is configured to mix the first and second components prior to the mixture exiting the opening in the tip. | 10-04-2012 |
20130087636 | SPRAY NOZZLE FOR ADDITION OF SUBSTANCES INTO A REACTIVE MIXTURE - The invention relates to a spray nozzle for addition of substances into a reactive mixture, comprising a housing ( | 04-11-2013 |
20140367494 | ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED NOZZLE TIP FOR FUEL INJECTOR - A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine is disclosed that includes a nozzle tip assembly having a nozzle body substantially monolithically formed by additive manufacturing and having at least one fuel circuit defined therein and at least one air circuit defined therein. | 12-18-2014 |
239402000 | Plural serially arranged whirlers for same or for mixed fluids | 1 |
20100308135 | STAGING FUEL NOZZLE - A main swirler of a triple annular configuration that is partitioned by a pre-filmer and a separator is installed in an inlet port of a main air flow channel. The vicinity of the inner wall of the main air flow channel provided with a main fuel injection port is bulged radially outward from the innermost surface (innermost surface of a small swirler) of a main swirler. Further, a distance from the main fuel injection port and the pre-filmer is set such that an effective opening area between the pre-filmer and “the inner wall of the main air flow channel provided with the main fuel injection port” is equal to an effective opening area of the small swirler. The swirling directions of the swirlers of the main swirler are “clockwise”-“counter-clockwise”-“clockwise” respectively along the radial outward direction when the swirling direction of the innermost swirler is taken as “clockwise”. | 12-09-2010 |
239403000 | Whirling of fluid prior to or at point of addition of second fluid | 33 |
20090078792 | APPARATUS FOR AERATING AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION - An aqueous scream is pumped through a vortex cylinder. The aqueous stream is rotated in a downwardly moving spiral stream within the vortex cylinder at a high downward velocity. The downward velocity of the aqueous stream increases as it flows through a discharge conduit concentrically located within a mixing chamber of the vortex cylinder. An adjustable air inlet tube open to atmospheric pressure extends through the vortex chamber and into the discharge conduit. A negative pressure zone is created at the discharge end of the discharge conduit for drawing air into the aqueous stream for mixing therewith and dissolving oxygen in the aqueous solution. | 03-26-2009 |
20090166449 | APPARATUS FOR MIXING CHEMICALS WITH A LIQUID CARRIER - An application for a device for mixing chemicals into a flow of a liquid includes a mixing chamber and an input port at a first end of the mixing chamber. The input port has an input connection for accepting a flow of the liquid and a plurality of input port channels. The input port channels direct the flow of the liquid from the input connection to the mixing chamber at an angle with respect to an inner wall of the mixing chamber. Located close to the input port is a chemical input orifice for accepting a chemical into the mixing chamber. Located at a distal end of the mixing chamber is an output port that has an output connection for discharging a mixture of the liquid and the chemical and a plurality of output port channels. The output port channels direct a flow of the mixture angularly with respect to the inner wall of the mixing chamber to the output connection. | 07-02-2009 |
20100019063 | ROTARY FURNACE BURNER - In order to provide a rotary-furnace burner in which the quantity fraction of cost-effective particulate secondary fuels to be used as energy carriers can be increased and the configuration of the burner flame can be influenced, even during the operation of the burner, it is proposed, according to the invention, to arrange an expansion chamber open towards the burner mouth and having a widened cross section, as compared with the tube or individual tubes in the burner in front of the issue of the tube or tubes for blowing out the secondary fuels, and to make the axial length and the volume of the expansion chamber variable, during the operation of the burner, by means of the axial displacement of the secondary-fuel tubes, so that the particulate secondary fuel particles blown out at the burner mouth with a considerably reduced velocity do not fly past the burner flame, but, instead, burn out in the flame. | 01-28-2010 |
20100327081 | LOW PRESSURE AIR-BLAST ATOMIZER - This invention provides a low pressure air-blast atomizer. The atomizer includes a primary body having an inlet side, a discharge end and an axis therebetween. A first gas passage disposed about the axis. A substantially circumferential liquid passage is disposed adjacent to the first gas passage and proximate to the inlet side. An annular metering insert is disposed between the circumferential liquid passage and the first gas passage, the metering insert providing substantially circumferential fluid communication between the circumferential liquid passage and the first gas passage. A liquid inlet passageway extends from the circumferential liquid passage to an external liquid port. A secondary body is structured and arranged to receive the discharge end of the primary body, the secondary body and discharge end defining a plurality of swirling passageways circumferentially about the first gas passage and terminating proximate to a discharge end of the first gas passage. A plurality of secondary gas passages extend from the swirling passageways to external ports proximate to the inlet side. | 12-30-2010 |
20110127355 | Burner | 06-02-2011 |
20120181354 | COMBUSTOR NOZZLE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE COMBUSTOR NOZZLE - A combustor nozzle includes a single-piece swirler. The single-piece swirler includes a center body extending axially along the single-piece swirler, a first fuel passage inside the center body, and a plurality of vanes extending radially from the center body. A method for fabricating a combustor nozzle includes casting a single-piece swirler having a center body and a plurality of vanes extending radially from the center body. | 07-19-2012 |
20130233946 | FUEL INJECTION VALVE - A fuel injection valve includes a nozzle body including an injection aperture; a needle that is slidably located in the nozzle body, forms a fuel introduction path between the needle and the nozzle body, and is seated on a seat portion in the nozzle body; a swirling flow generating portion that is located more upstream than the seat portion, and imparts a swirl with respect to a sliding direction of the needle to fuel introduced from the fuel introduction path; a swirl velocity increasing portion that is located more downstream than the seat portion, and increases a swirl velocity of a swirling flow generated in the swirling flow generating portion; and an air bubble reserving portion that is located more downstream than the swirl velocity increasing portion, and reserves air bubbles generated by passage through the swirl velocity increasing portion. The injection aperture opens in the air bubble reserving portion. | 09-12-2013 |
20140048625 | INJECTOR FOR MIXING TWO PROPELLANTS COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE INJECTION ELEMENT WITH A TRICOAXIAL STRUCTURE - An injector for mixing two propellants upstream of a combustion chamber. The injector includes: at least one injection element with a tricoaxial structure installed between two plates which between them delimit a space; and coaxial ducts including an internal coaxial duct and an external coaxial duct that are supplied in parallel with a same propellant, for example via the space. | 02-20-2014 |
20140263748 | ATOMIZING NOZZLE WITH IMPROVED ROTOR STRUCTURE - An atomizing nozzle includes a combination of a body and a rotor. One end of the body has an inlet, and the other end of the body has a jetting hole. A channel passage connects the inlet to the jetting hole, and the rotor is mounted in the channel passage. The rotor has a head part and a body part, and at least one air passage is formed on a surface of the body part of the rotor. The air passage of the rotor surface may communicate with the channel passage. Thus, the fluid entering the channel passage may pass through the air passage and be jetted from the jetting hole to form a micro-atomization state, and the rotor is free from generating the obvious raked state or lateral displacement so that the working stability of the atomizing nozzle can be enhanced. | 09-18-2014 |
20140263749 | CENTRIFUGAL MIXING SPRAY NOZZLE - A nozzle tip assembly comprises a nozzle housing and a break-up insert. The nozzle assembly is adapted for receiving multiple pre-cursor fluids from multiple lumen. The pre-cursor fluids are kept substantially separate and forced around the break-up insert into a channel formed between the insert and the nozzle housing. Fluid is forced into fluted channels on a distal end of the break-up insert into a swirl chamber where mixing occurs prior to being expelled through an exit orifice in the nozzle housing. | 09-18-2014 |
20140291418 | MULTI-CIRCUIT AIRBLAST FUEL NOZZLE - Provided is a nozzle for an injector including a nozzle body disposed interiorly of an air swirler, the nozzle body including a plurality of sets of multiple exit orifices arranged in an annular array with the orifices of one set alternating with the orifices of another set, wherein the plurality of exit orifices terminate at an end face of the nozzle body upstream of a common prefilmer orifice. Fuel may be directed through the orifices at varying angles and flow rates to allow for varying fuel metering and fuel swirl during staging. | 10-02-2014 |
20150028132 | SPRAY NOZZLE ASSEMBLY WITH IMPINGEMENT POST-DIFFUSER - An internal mix air atomizing spray nozzle assembly having a nozzle body that defines a central liquid flow passage, an air guide for directing pressurized air within the nozzle, and a downstream air cap having an upstanding impingement post and a plurality of discharge orifice defining passages about the impingement post. The air cap passages each are oriented at compound angle with respect to a central axis for discharging atomized liquid flow streams in a conical spray pattern swirling in a predetermined rotative direction about the central axis, and the impingement post has a diffuser cap that defines a flat central liquid impingement surface and an outer annular array of non radial diffuser veins for directing the atomized liquid and pressurized air in a swirling fashion about the impingement post in the same relative direction as the swirling spray pattern from the air cap passages. | 01-29-2015 |
20150028133 | Enhanced Mixing Tube Elements - The present application provides a fuel nozzle for use with a flow of air and a flow of fuel in a gas turbine engine. The fuel nozzle may include a plenum, a mixing tube element positioned within the plenum, and an enhanced mixing feature positioned within the mixing tube element so as to promote mixing of the flow of air and the flow of fuel. The enhanced mixing feature may include a turbulated mixing zone. | 01-29-2015 |
20150361896 | INJECTORS FOR MULTIPOINT INJECTION - An injector for a multipoint combustor system includes an inner air swirler which defines an interior flow passage and a plurality of swirler inlet ports in an upstream portion thereof. The inlet ports are configured and adapted to impart swirl on flow in the interior flow passage. An outer air cap is mounted outboard of the inner swirler. A fuel passage is defined between the inner air swirler and the outer air cap, and includes a discharge outlet between downstream portions of the inner air swirler and the outer air cap for issuing fuel for combustion. The outer air cap defines an outer air circuit configured for substantially unswirled injection of compressor discharge air outboard of the interior flow passage. | 12-17-2015 |
20160010855 | SWIRL SLOT RELIEF IN A LIQUID SWIRLER | 01-14-2016 |
20160047586 | EJECTOR - An interior of a nozzle in an ejector is formed with a swirling space in which a refrigerant swirls, and a refrigerant passage in which the refrigerant that has flowed from the swirling space is depressurized. The refrigerant passage includes a minimum passage area part most reduced in the refrigerant passage area, and a divergent part that gradually enlarges in the refrigerant passage area from the minimum passage area part toward a refrigerant ejection port. Plate members, which reduce a velocity component of the refrigerant flowing into the minimum passage area part in a swirling direction, are disposed within the refrigerant passage. | 02-18-2016 |
20160091201 | FUEL NOZZLE - A fuel nozzle includes a center body and a shroud circumferentially surrounding at least a portion of the center body to define an annular passage between the center body and the shroud. A plurality of vanes extend radially between the center body and the shroud in the annular passage. A first ceramic extension extends downstream from the shroud to define at least a portion of the annular passage downstream from the shroud. | 03-31-2016 |
20160177834 | FUEL NOZZLE STRUCTURE | 06-23-2016 |
20160177905 | Centrifugal Conical-Spray Nozzle | 06-23-2016 |
20160186662 | PILOT NOZZLE IN GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine that includes: an elongated centerbody; an elongated peripheral wall formed about the centerbody so to define a primary flow annulus therebetween; a primary fuel supply and a primary air supply in fluid communication with an upstream end of the primary flow annulus; and a pilot nozzle. The pilot nozzle may be formed in the centerbody and include: axially elongated mixing tubes defined within a centerbody wall; a fuel port positioned on the mixing tubes for connecting each to a secondary fuel supply; and a secondary air supply configured so to fluidly communicate with an inlet of each of the mixing tubes. A plurality of the mixing tubes may be formed as canted mixing tubes that are configured for inducing a swirling flow about the central axis in a collective discharge therefrom. | 06-30-2016 |
20160195050 | MIXING ASSEMBLY | 07-07-2016 |
20160252018 | ENHANCED MIXING TUBE ELEMENTS | 09-01-2016 |
239404000 | Discrete whirler means for each fluid | 4 |
20130161417 | Push-Button For A System For Dispensing A Product Under Pressure - A push-button for a system for dispensing a product under pressure, the push-button including a body having a mounting well on a feed tube for the pressurised product and a housing in communication with the well, the housing being provided with an anvil around which a spray nozzle is mounted in such a way as to form a path for dispensing the product between the housing and a swirl array including at least two swirl chambers, each of the swirl chambers including at least one supply channel in order to provide for the setting in rotation of the product in the chamber and a channel for dispensing a flow of product set in rotation, the dispensing channels each converging from an inlet orifice towards an outlet orifice according to an angle which is arranged in order to allow for the impaction of the flows of product dispensed by the channels. | 06-27-2013 |
20130306757 | HEAD FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT - A fluid dispenser device comprising a pre-compression pump ( | 11-21-2013 |
20140239095 | MULTIPOINT INJECTORS - A multipoint injector includes a nozzle body defining a fluid inlet in fluid communication with a plurality of feed bores. A plurality of swirl chambers is defined radially outward from the fluid inlet of the nozzle body in fluid communication with the fluid inlet through the feed bores. A plurality of injection orifices are respectively aligned in fluid communication with the swirl chambers for issuing a swirling spray of fluid passing from each swirl chamber through each injection orifice. | 08-28-2014 |
20150292439 | INJECTOR ELEMENT - The invention relates to the field of injectors, and in particular to an injector element ( | 10-15-2015 |
239405000 | Fluid in outer of concentrically arranged paths is whirled | 7 |
20090026291 | SPRAY DEVICE FOR SMALL AMOUNT OF LIQUID - A spray device includes an opening gap between a needle-shaped needle tip and a first nozzle hole. The gap is adjusted by a very tiny amount by a needle movement amount adjustment device, and liquid oozes from the first nozzle hole along the needle tip part. The liquid is formed into tiny particles by a first atomization compressed gas flowing through the first atomization compressed gas passage and is exhausted from a second nozzle hole. The exhaust flow passes through a third nozzle hole and is exhausted. The third nozzle's second atomization/eddy flow formation compressed gas collides with this exhaust flow, so the exhaust flow is made into even smaller particles, and swirls and disperses, and is applied to the coated object. | 01-29-2009 |
20090057443 | NOZZLE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a spray nozzle, that includes a stationary tube and a rigid rotor. The stationary tube has a proximal, a distal end opposite the proximal end, and a tube passage that extends from substantially at or near the proximal end of the stationary tube to substantially at or near the distal end of the stationary tube. The stationary tube is configured to communicate substantially at or near the proximal end with a pressurized air source The rigid rotor has a distal end rotatably coupled substantially at or near the distal end of the stationary tube, a proximal end comprising an outlet port substantially at or near the proximal end and a rotor passage in fluid communication with the stationary tube. The rotor passage extends from substantially at or near the distal end of the rotor to substantially at or near the proximal end of the rotor. Further, the rotor passage is configured to remain in fluid communication with the tube passage during rotation of the rotor relative to the stationary tube about a rotor axis of rotation. The outlet port is offset a radial distance in a radial direction from the rotor axis substantially at or near at a distal end of the rotary member, and ejection of the pressurized air from the outlet port is configured to produce directional components of the pressurized air in the direction of rotation about the rotor axis of rotation. | 03-05-2009 |
239406000 | Mixing at or downstream of terminus | 5 |
20130327849 | FUEL INJECTOR - A fuel injector includes a pilot fuel injector, configured to inject the fuel into a combustion chamber, and a main fuel injector provided coaxially with the pilot fuel injector so as to surround the pilot fuel injector and configured to have a main flow path to generate a premixed air-fuel mixture. The main flow path includes an outer main air passage located radially outwardly and configured to supply a compressed air in an axial direction into an annular premixed air-fuel mixture passage, an inner main air passage located radially inwardly and configured to supply the compressed air into the premixed air-fuel mixture passage from a radially inner side. The injector further includes a main fuel injection port to inject the fuel from an axially upstream side into the inner main air passage. | 12-12-2013 |
20140246518 | FUEL NOZZLE WITH DISCRETE JET INNER AIR SWIRLER - A fuel nozzle includes an axial fuel circuit having a converging front surface with an axial fuel outlet formed therein, an air swirler surrounding the axial fuel circuit and having a converging front wall, a swirl chamber bounded by the converging front surface of the axial fuel circuit and the converging front wall of the air swirler, and an air cap surrounding the air swirler, such that an air circuit is defined between the air cap and the air swirler. A plurality of circumferentially disposed discrete jet passages extend through the converging front wall of the air swirler for directing atomizing air from the air circuit to the swirl chamber. | 09-04-2014 |
20140339339 | AIRBLAST INJECTORS FOR MULTIPOINT INJECTION AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLY - A method of assembling an airblast injector includes forming a fluid passage on an internal conical surface of a first nozzle component and/or on an outer conical surface of a second nozzle component configured and adapted to mate with the first nozzle component to form at least a portion of a fluid circuit therebetween. The fluid passage is configured and adapted to provide passage for fluid in the fluid circuit between the first and second nozzle components. The method also includes joining the first and second nozzle components together by engaging the second nozzle component within the first nozzle component. | 11-20-2014 |
20160115926 | RETENTION FEATURE FOR FUEL INJECTOR NOZZLE - A nozzle for a fuel injector can include an outer air swirler having an inner surface with the outer air swirler having a groove on the inner surface and a prefilmer located concentrically within the outer air swirler with the prefilmer having at least one detent finger to engage the groove on the inner surface of the outer air swirler. The nozzle can also include a fuel swirler located concentrically within the prefilmer and configured to convey fuel to a forward end of the nozzle with the fuel swirler having at least one tab extending axially at an aft end, and an inner air swirler having a cylindrical forward end located concentrically within the fuel swirler and an aft support extending radially outward to contact the outer air swirler with the cylindrical forward end contacting at least one tab of the fuel swirler to hold the fuel swirler in place. | 04-28-2016 |
20160195266 | SWIRLER | 07-07-2016 |